Healthy Weight Protocol (HWP) is a scientific measurement of pets, as compared to mentally comparing the size of your obese dog with other obese dogs. Pet owners (and veterinarians) see so many obese pets that, in our minds, the standard…
My favorite pet weight-loss story began with an unlikely pair. “Sheba” belonged to a family, but I routinely saw the father and the early-20s daughter. They had been coming to me for some time with the sweetest Rottweiler our practice…
Mrs. Jones has been a faithful MyPetsDoctor.com reader for quite some time. Our first encounter was when she sent in a comment with a question about her elderly dog, Maggie Mae. Maggie Mae eventually succumbed to the effects of 13…
Feline Infectious Peritonitis, FIP, is a disease of cats causing a variety of illnesses. For new information on FIP, including treatment, click here. FIP is caused by a coronavirus, so-called because under an electron microscope it looks like a crown…
At the Central Veterinary Conference in Washington, D.C., in May, 2013, Kristin MacDonald, D.V.M., PhD, DACVIM (cardiology), co-author of Feline Cardiology (Wiley-Blackwell), addressed 11 fallacies practitioners encounter in an effort to ensure more cats are protected with heartworm preventives year-round. DVMNewsmagazine has…
Last week we discussed Cranial Cruciate Ligament (CCL) disease, causes and predispositions. Click here to read that post. The American College of Veterinary Surgeons (ACVS) suggests that pet owners not consider conservative, medical treatment, as patients with complete rupture of…
According to James K. Roush, D.V.M., MS and Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Surgeons, “cranial cruciate ligament (CCL) rupture is the most common cause of hindlimb lameness in dogs.” Untreated cranial cruciate ligament injury quickly results in osteoarthritis…
Dr. Alice Jeromin, a pharmacist and veterinary dermatologist in private practice in Cleveland, OH, has written an excellent update on the latest for treatment of Atopy (also called Atopic Dermatitis) patients. If you have not already read the basics on…
Eclampsia, also called puerperal* tetany, is defined as low blood calcium levels detected just before or up to 4 weeks after giving birth to puppies and/or during lactation (giving milk, feeding puppies). Eclampsia occurs in cats, but much less often…
Dr. Marcella D. Ridgway, VMD, MS and a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (DACVIM)has written an excellent article in the February, 2013, issue of Clinician’s Brief, a leading, peer-reviewed journal on veterinary medicine. (I was going…
